Karun Chandhok has rejected any safety fears surrounding the Hispania car he will test for the first time on Friday in a live practice session.
A growing list of F1 names have expressed concern about the conditions in which the HRT car will debut it’s first GP, including Ferrari, Felipe Massa, Christian Horner and David Coulthard.
The latter calling it ‘irresponsible’ of the FIA to allow a team to compete without prior testing.
Chandhok though is confident the Dallara built car doesn’t pose a safety threat.
“I have driven Dallara Formula 3 cars, world series cars, GP2 cars – they are a reputed manufacturer so when they say that the car is safe I have no question marks regarding the safety angle,” he told the Telegraph.
“It’s not going to be the Lewis Hamilton debut, I won’t lie to you. If we finish the race it will be a minor miracle. But these are the cards we have been dealt with. No one is holding a gun to my head. This is what I choose to do: race in F1. This is the opportunity I have got.
“I mean, if the testing regulations were the way they were when DC started at Williams, then you would say ‘OK, I will be a test driver with a top team and then hope one of the drivers breaks his leg’. But the way the rules are, it doesn’t make that much sense any more.”
